I was thinking that it’s been about two years since I first started to follow the new Palm OS\phone story. Around the same time in 2007 I also heard about the relaunch of the Star Trek franchise. Now that Star Trek looks to be a success, its Palm’s turn.

Here are some similarities between them:

Both brought in outside help to head up the effort from other successfully companies (JJ Abrams & Jon Rubinstein)
Plus these new top level people brought over other people with them (Fringe writers and iPod engineers)
Both got large financial backing (Paramount & Elevation Partners)
Some old time fans are not happy with changes (Star Trek change characters and canon, Palm total new OS breaking link to pc)

As a long time fan of both ST and Palm, I look forward to them having bright futures.